Aden Popularity. In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 369 in baby name popularity for boys with 864 occurrences. It ranked 7,564 in baby name popularity for girls with 15 occurrences. In contrast, the year before it ranked 335 in baby name popularity for boys with 994 occurrences.
It became the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) effective July 1, 1967. The organization was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 24, 1970, and Centers for Disease Control effective October 14, 1980. An act of the United States Congress appended the words and Prevention to the name effective October 27, 1992. However, Congress directed that the initialism CDC be retained because of its name recognition.
A major CDC contribution to world health was leadership in global polio eradication. By 1992 CDC had expanded far beyond communicable diseases, and the agency's name was changed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The acronym remained CDC by law.).